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William Golder (1810-1876) is credited with being the first British poet to publish a collection of his poetry in New Zealand, The New Zealand Minstrelsy (1852).1 He arrived in Wellington in 1840 at the very beginning of organised British settlement2 and spent the rest of his life contributing to the formation of the emergent nation through his labour in land clearance, running a school, engagement in intellectual and political affairs, and the publishing of four volumes of poetry. His purpose in writing and publishing his poetry was three-fold: (a) to contribute to the creation of a literature that would assist in forming the new nation of New Zealand; (b) to provide relief from the discouraging and exhausting work of settlement, especially land clearance; (c) and to leave a record which would commemorate the early settlers and remind those benefiting from their labour in the future of the debt they owed to the pioneers.
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Opie, B. (2012). Textscapes And Landscapes. In: Luke, T.W., Hunsinger, J. (eds) Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play. Transdisciplinary Studies, vol 4. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-728-8_6
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